THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 December 1920, Page 3

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

[ PROCEDURE COMMISSION, DECISION'S ACCEPTED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Geneva, Nov. o(J. Plenary sittings of the League of Nations Assembly have been resinned. The report of the Procedure Commission was presented and it was accepted as a guiding principle- that the Assembly is sovereign, but the intermittent power of the League is the Council and the permanent secretariat is the executive organisations. It provides that a majority of members can at any time summon Assembly meetings. The latter are fixed to be held annually on the first Monday in September. In deference to overseas countries the cable will be used to communicate matter important to the member. The rules permit members to speak in their own language, provided they, at their own expense, furnish an English or French translation. Mr. Balfour, as chairman of the Procedure Commission, said lie hoped the rules would be adopted. He members to discuss the subject °on broad lines and not in a controversial spirit. He moved the adoption of the report. Count Ishii thought an annual session would impose great hardship on delegate* from distant partsi of the world. He hud even- two years, with a special session of circumstances demanded. but he accepted the yearly session in the spirit of conciliation, although the Japanese delegates would spend a considerable time trnv- ! elling backwards and forwards to Europe. He regretted the commission had not taken measures to secure the free development of all races.